Meanings
plural antipodes
- raresingularsingular of antipodes; synonym of antipode.
Another cause of non-union is one the very antipous of too much motion, viz. too little.
1830 March, James Johnson, editor, The Medico-Chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine, London: […] S. Highley, […], page 4125 more examples
Far and wide is the difference between hydrencephalus and peripneumony. Peripneumony is a disease not to be mistaken, evident to the feelings, palpable to the senses, destitute of all uncertainty:—Hydrencephalus is the antipous to these, is surrounded with mystery, and its very existence never undeniably determined but by dissection.
1826 April, James Johnson, editor, The Medico-Chirurgical Review, London: […] G. Hayden, […] Burgess & Hill, […], page 443Brethren, we must not view one side of man (though I digress) without seeing the other; let us see him not by himself, he may be a rustic-boor, chop-stick, serf, drudge, dirty, ragged, illiterate, vulgar; but, he may be at the same time one of Jesus’ chosen, a stone of the temple, a lord of eternity, one who will judge angels; his antipous here, (the delicate walker above) will also be his antipous hereafter, he will be his servant. (Mat. xxiii. 11. xix. 30.)
1836, J. Filmer Emmett, “Tekel;” or, A Warning to the Spiritual Israel of the Present Day, Setting Forth Their False and Unscriptural Position; Also, the Only Path by Which They Can Return unto the Lord Their God, London: […] [F]or the Author by Ebenezer Palmer and Son, […], page 115Priessnitz has got a rival close to his own castle! About four miles from Graffenberg, in the lovely valley of Lindiviesse, Dr. Schrott, an old school-fellow of the apostle of hydropathy, has started a cure-all, in opposition to the Silesian peasant. His methodus medendi is no vile imitation of that of the far-famed practitioner of Graeffenberg. It is a veritable antipous.
1844, Daniel Drake, Lunsford P[itts] Yandell, Thomas W. Colescott, editors, The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Louisville, Ky.: […] Prentice & Weissinger, […], page 176He was forsooth a great Arithmetician, / Had all the Ready Reckoner at command, / And, having been a sort of Sub-Physician, / Now came to cast the water of the Land, / Which he pronounced in a most vile condition, / So bad in fact ’twas clear things could not stand; / The antipous of Leibnitz, still his song / Ran ever thus, ‘Whatever is is wrong.’
a. 1846, Richard Harris Barham, “The Relic; or The Antiquary and the Patriot. A Canterbury Tale, Founded on Fact.”, in [Richard Harris Dalton Barham], editor, The Life and Letters of the Rev. Richard Harris Barham, Author of The Ingoldsby Legends: with a Selection from His Miscellaneous Poems, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1870, page 235Its immediate motive cause was the sentiment of ‘now or never’ aroused by Whitgift’s policy of repression after his acceptance of the Primacy in 1583; its intellectual parentage may be ascribed to Cartwright, the antipous of Whitgift in the religious history of the reign.
1899, Adolphus William Ward, A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 463
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Ancient Greekἀντίπους
- Englishantipous
From Ancient Greek ἀντίπους (antípous).
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